The bus driver may have been under the influence of drugs and will be held for questioning.
A bus accident occurred on the E19 near Sint-Job-In-t-Goor in the direction of Breda on Sunday afternoon. Two people died in the accident. In addition, several people were injured, five of whom are in life-threatening condition. The injured were dispersed over several hospitals by the bedside conversation at locations. The slightly injured victims who did not have to go to hospital were received in the town hall of Pods† People from an international group who had already been discharged from the hospital were accommodated in a hotel.
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The French bus driver, a 35-year-old man, has been arrested for questioning. A first saliva test, which checks after a traffic accident whether someone perhaps used drugs was positive. BlaBlaBus is a French coach company, part of the French car-sharing platform BlaBlaCar, which has been operating long-distance scheduled services in Western Europe since 23 July 2012. The network serves various destinations in Western Europe, with Paris and Lyon as the main destinations. A total of 33 people were in the coach, the owner reports.
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The accident happened around 11.45 am en route to Amsterdam just before the Dutch border. A BlaBlaCar bus had deviated from the track, hit a concrete guardrail on the right and then swerved to the left. The bus had also hit the guardrail there and then overturned. Most of the victims have French nationality, according to De Morgen, but there are also people with Spanish, Canadian, Mexican, Croatian and American nationality.
